Walking the Passage: Experiencing the elements leads to a conversation where the strength of joy becomes slightly more understood

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Experiencing the elements leads to a conversation where the strength of joy becomes slightly more understood

My mind felt washed... It was as if all of a sudden streams of living water were flowing over and around and into my brain .... I saw as the waters penetrated deeply ... I could feel something change from behind my eyes

It continued and this water saturated my entire being pouring around and into my heart and flooding by body down to my toes...

Then the wind began ever so gently sweeping over me and it was like a gloriously awaited breeze on a hot Summer day... And I laid in it's arms and watched as it began to dance and swirl... And I got caught up into the bursts of air and before I knew it it had become a large gust of wind and was quickly turning into a cyclone...
The winds around me were violent and yet I was unharmed...

Then I was standing in another place standing by a wall of fire and there was One standing next to me bidding me to touch it... Bidding me to walk into her.... It was so completely strange standing there I felt not one bit of heat and yet I could see the effects of the fire upon my person.... I looked at my arms and I spread my right arm out and watched as the fire fell upon it... Saturating it with her flames and leaping and dancing upon my arm and upon my person ... I stood there for what felt like ages and while I understood not what or why I knew there was something transpiring ...

Then I was in another place altogether and right there waiting for me He was present... I was sitting and He desired for me to stand.. Stand and walk with Him... Take His hand and walk ... And as we did He spoke of the water and the wind and the fire....

In all honesty I treasure all He talks about but truly He could talk about nothing or anything ... It is just being with Him... Being aware of Him and learning from Him and walking with Him.... He makes everything simply and profoundly better....

In His presence there is a fullness of joy that is not giddy emotion but solid strength... And in that place I long to live every moment of my life forth from.. There are gazes and glances of affection and an understanding of the fact of how fully known and loved I really am in those minutes

It matters not what He speaks about... Just that we are together and in His abundance of affection I am both lost and found ... Lost into the delight of being loved by Him and found over and over and over again as I become who He always saw and knew me as

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One of my Favorite Narnian Quotes...

“One word, Ma’am,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping because of the pain. “One word. All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things – trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world that makes you real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play-world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we’re leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for the Overland.

A Brilliant Quote from Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,

but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking

so that others won't feel unsure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us; it is in every one.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.